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Kids Fundamentals - Kimura From Guard
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Armbar From Guard
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Triangle Choke from Guard
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Cross Choke From Mount
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Armbar From Mount
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Sit Up Sweep
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Paintbrush From Mount
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Crash Sweep
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Kids Fundamentals - Scissor Sweep
This kids fundamentals series focuses on teaching the required techniques in a digestible way for our young white, grey/white, and grey belts.
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Fundamentals - Scissor Sweep from Closed Guard
By threatening the cross choke opportunity opens up for the scissor sweep. The threat of submission from closed guard keeps you two steps ahead of your opponent because before they can address opening the guard, the choke has to be defended first.
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Lapel Wrap System Part 1 - Cross Choke
Matt Darcy shows how to get the cross choke using the lapel wrap system. This variation gives more leverage when dealing with a bigger and stronger opponent.
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Traditional Cross Choke, Sling Shot Cross Choke
Matt Darcy shows the traditional cross choke. Also incorporates the sling shot, clubbing the head and bypassing the hand defenses for a baseball bat style grip.
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Elbow Push Series In-Depth
Matt Darcy goes over a series of moves after the opponent attempts a stack pass. After pushing on the elbow, and what the opponents reaction is, he shows a Tsurikomi Goshi throw variation, turning the hips to end in side control, shoulder roll to also end in side control, or his favorite position...
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Short arm drag takedown into half guard and baiting the underhook
Matt Darcy demonstrates the double leg takedown using a short arm drag. After falling into the opponents half-guard He shows how to finish with an anaconda choke, guillotine, and mounted guillotine by baiting his opponent into getting the underhook.
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Stack Passing - fundamental and countering hand on the hip defense
Matt Darcy shows the fundamentals of a traditional stack pass. One of the common reactions from the bottom is to put the hand on the hip to stop the pass. Matt shows two options using your knee to shed the hand and complete the pass into side control.
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Side Control Escapes - Forcing Headlock with Under Hook Hand Position
Matt Darcy shows how to force your opponent to make a mistake when trying to hold you in side control. The under hook hand position sometimes forces a headlock to prevent you from taking their back. We all know the headlock is terrible technique and we should then capitalize on it.
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Escaping Side Control with Under Hook Hand Position - Butterfly Guard Back Take
Matt Darcy shows how to use the under hook hand position to make your opponent make mistakes. You then can capitalize with a butterfly guard back take.
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Escaping Side Control with Under Hook Hand Position Part 1
Matt Darcy shows an alternative hand position for bottom side control. He also goes into detail on how to get it before being locked down in side control.
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Fundamental Mount Domination Drill - The Top Tier Positions
Matt Darcy caps off a drill from the last two weeks of class that highlights the details of why mount and back positions are the most dominant fundamental positions in jiu-jitsu.
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50/50 footlock
Matt Darcy Shows how to do a 50/50 foot lock when your opponent is trying to keep a strong top base
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Closed Guard - Calasans Wrist Lock
Matt Darcy shows how he does one of his favorite wrist locks that Claudio Calasans made famous.
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Fundamental Escapes - Hip Escape from Mount
Matt Darcy goes in depth on how to use the hip escape to escape mount.
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Butterfly Guard Back Take from Mount Escape
Matt Darcy shows how to keep the momentum going after escaping mount by taking the back from butterfly guard.
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Q&A - How Does Matt Get Out of 50/50 Guard? 50/50 Crab Ride
Matt Darcy crab rides from 50/50 guard.